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Speaking before more than 1,000 Republicans at the Arizona GOP’s state convention in January, newly inaugurated Attorney General Mark Brnovich spoke in vivid terms about how he plans to deal with the federal government.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is asking for a $2.7 million supplement to the current fiscal year 2015 budget to cover a shortfall and a permanent $4.7 million increase to hire more attorneys to work on child-welfare cases and keep the lawyers they have from fleeing to better paying jobs.

Whether Tom Horne is guilty or innocent of the many allegations he has faced in the past several years, his historic defeat in the Republican primary can be traced back to one fateful decision halfway through his first year as attorney general.

Attorney General Tom Horne insisted that nothing is more important to him than ethics as he sought to defend himself from GOP challenger Mark Brnovich and the scandals and accusations that have haunted him for more than two years.